From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:33:51 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 3/4] VM: toss_page_cache_node syscall Message-Id: <20050427163351.442aca08.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050427150952.GU8018@localhost> References: <20050427145734.GL8018@localhost> <20050427150952.GU8018@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Martin Hicks Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, raybry@sgi.com, ak@suse.de List-ID: Martin Hicks wrote: > > This just adds a simple syscall to call into the reclaim code. > The use for this would be to clear all unneeded pagecache and slabcache > off a node before running a big HPC job. > > A "memory freer" app can be found at: > http://www.bork.org/~mort/sgi/localreclaim/reclaim_memory.c I renamed "toss" to "reclaim". We don't want to confirm that mm developers are a bunch of tossers. Please update userspace to suit? ia64 unistd.h needs patching? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org